Help for Directory Icons

Use this form to define how you want your server to use icons on directory listings. You can specify whether you want to use icons, how alternate text should be displayed, what standard icons you want to use, and what icons you want to bind to MIME content-types or encoding-types.


Display of Directory List Icons

You can have your server place an icon in front of each line of the directory listings it returns to clients.

To show icons on directory listings:

  1. Check the Show directory list icons box.
  2. If you want to use the changes you make to the form, select the Apply button. If you want to go back to the values that were on the form before you made changes, select the Reset button.


Display of Text in Place of Icons

When your server sends a directory listing to a browser that cannot display images, the text you define for your icons will be shown in place of the icons. You can choose to place brackets around the text.

To display text in brackets:

  1. Check the Place Brackets around text box.
  2. If you want to use the changes you make to the form, select the Apply button. If you want to go back to the values that were on the form before you made changes, select the Reset button.


Standard Directory List Icons

You can specify the icons you want to use to represent standard directory list items.

To define standard directory list icons:

  1. For each standard directory item, enter the path for an icon image file.

    Note: The paths you specify for icons are treated by the server as URLs and as such are translated through the server's resource mapping rules. For the icons to be retrieved, you must make sure that the mapping rules allow the URL to be passed. If your server is a proxy, you must specify a fully qualified URL pointing to your server and map the URL to a local file.

    Also, enter the text you want to use in place of the icon for browsers that cannot display images.

    The standard icons the server uses on directory listings are:

  2. If you want to use the changes you make to the form, select the Apply button. If you want to go back to the values that were on the form before you made changes, select the Reset button.


MIME Content-Type and Encoding-Type Icons

You can create or modify a list of icons to represent MIME content-types or encoding-types. Your server can then use the icons on directory listings to indicate the content-type or encoding-type of files.

The order of the list is important because the server will compare from the top of the list to the bottom. The server uses the icon defined for the first matched type or encoding.

To insert a new entry:

  1. Select either the Insert before or Insert after button.
  2. Select an Index number.

    Your choices in steps 1 and 2 indicate the position you want the new entry to have in the list. For example, if you select Insert before and Index 2, the new entry will be second in the list. If you select Insert after and Index 4, the new entry will be fifth in the list.

  3. Create the new entry by filling in the following fields:
  4. If you want to use the changes you make to the form, select the Apply button. If you want to go back to the values that were on the form before you made changes, select the Reset button.

To replace an entry:

  1. Select the Replace button.
  2. Select the Index number of the icon you want to replace.
  3. Create the new entry by filling in the following fields:
  4. If you want to use the changes you make to the form, select the Apply button. If you want to go back to the values that were on the form before you made changes, select the Reset button.

To remove an entry:

  1. Select the Remove button.
  2. Select the Index number of the icon you want to remove.
  3. If you want to use the changes you make to the form, select the Apply button. If you want to go back to the values that were on the form before you made changes, select the Reset button.

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